Liberty Way Renovation at the 2026 AAHOA Georgia Conference
On August 6, 2026, the Liberty Way Renovation team exhibited at the 2026 AAHOA Georgia Hotel Owners Conference & Trade Show at Gas South District in Duluth, Georgia. Liberty Way Renovation is based in Atlanta, so this show was effectively a home game for us, and that is part of why we wanted to write about it rather than just post a photo from the booth.
Why Regional AAHOA Events Matter
AAHOA is the trade association for Asian American hotel owners, and its members are not a small niche of the industry. A study AAHOA commissioned with Oxford Economics found that AAHOA members own roughly 60 percent of the hotels in the United States. That number is a few years old now, but even accounting for change since then, it points to the same conclusion: if you want to be in a room with the people who actually decide whether a hotel gets renovated, an AAHOA event is one of the most direct ways to do it.
The Georgia conference is smaller and more regional than AAHOA's national convention, and that is exactly its value. Instead of a few minutes of conversation lost in a crowd of thousands, a regional show gives owners and vendors time to talk about a specific property, a specific PIP letter, or a specific budget. For an owner sitting on a brand notice with a renovation deadline attached to it, that kind of direct conversation is worth more than another cold email.
Being headquartered in Atlanta adds something practical to that. We are not flying in for one day and disappearing until next year's show. If a conversation at the booth turns into a site visit or a proposal, we are a short drive from most properties in the state, not a multi-state trip, which matters when an owner wants someone to walk a hallway with them before signing anything.
What We Bring to the Conversation
Liberty Way Renovation has completed 70+ hotel renovation projects across 28-plus U.S. states, working under PIP requirements from Hilton, Marriott, IHG, Choice, Wyndham, Radisson, Hyatt, and Best Western. That range matters at a show like this, because every brand reads its Property Improvement Plan a little differently, and an owner with a Hampton Inn PIP is dealing with a different checklist than an owner bringing a Holiday Inn Express up to a new prototype. Having done the work across most of the major flags means we can look at a PIP letter on the spot and tell an owner, in plain terms, what it actually requires and roughly what it will cost.
That is a different kind of conversation than most owners get from a general contractor who has only worked on a handful of hotel brands, or from a vendor who sells one piece of the renovation and nothing else.
Why We Keep Showing Up
Renovation planning is not a transaction that happens over a website contact form. It starts with trust, and trust is easier to build across a table than across an inbox. Owners who come to a regional conference like this one are usually already thinking about a renovation, whether that is a PIP-driven scope, a pre-sale refresh, or a phased upgrade on an operating property. Being physically present at events like the AAHOA Georgia show let us have that first conversation while the details were still fresh in an owner's mind, rather than trying to recreate the same context later over email.
We plan to keep showing up at AAHOA events across the Southeast, not just the Georgia show, because the owners we want to work with are the ones in that room.
We enjoyed the conversations at our booth in Duluth, and if you stopped by, thank you for taking the time. If you could not make it this year, you can still reach out directly. Either way, we are glad to talk through a PIP letter, a renovation timeline, or a budget, whenever you are ready.